2.5 million acres of rainforest were compromised or destroyed in Texaco’s search for oil in Ecuador. It is a disaster that has left the jungle ravaged and its people dying of cancer. Have you placed your order for a Toyota Prius yet?

Farm workers exposed to agricultural insecticides are at risk for neurological problems even if the products no longer are used, govt. researchers claim. This fact should not deter consumers from eating the chemicals – the medical industry needs more sick people.

The Portland City Council approved a recommendation to withdraw police officers from an FBI-led anti-terror task force after federal authorities refused to raise the mayor’s security clearance to let him keep closer watch over its activities.

The days of PBS actually airing something worth watching once in a great while is over. Evil has gained complete control and will ensure that PBS is nothing more than another tool for social engineering.

Rights watchdogs have seized on this week’s anniversary of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal to protest what they termed a lack of accountability for the torture of prisoners in U.S. custody, and to warn that problems which came to light at the prison in Iraq merely were ”the tip of the iceberg.”

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi finally voiced a an apology for Japan’s wartime record. Massive anti-Japanese demonstrations in China had threatened Japan’s business endeavors there. While the apology might not be heartfelt, it was at least a step in the right direction.

Nearly half of the US tax dollars is spent on the military. Imagine if the the $500 Billion spent on killing people and creating a global fasicst police state was instead spent on ending poverty and injustice.

The Shaver Mystery is 60 years old this year. You may never have heard of it, but it has influenced much of our popular culture – from ufology, to conspiracy theory, to the films of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.

Greenpeace activists blockaded the main entrance to government headquarters in Moscow Thursday to protest a new law the environmental group says will devastate Russian forests through uncontrolled logging

Since last Friday, the EU has banned the import of US corn feed. The new embargo has further strained a trade relationship already tense over genetically modified food, Airbus subsidies, and the weapons embargo against China.

Mikhail Gorbachev is pressing world leaders to adopt a treaty guaranteeing clean water and sanitation for their people, a task he says is more daunting than ending the nuclear arms race during the Cold War.

First they contaminated corn, then soy and now they are spreading genetically engineered rice around the world. Why? Pure greed mostly. Once patented DNA is in a plant the patent holder owns the crop. By spreading GE rice around the world agro-chemical companies gain control over the world’s food supply.

The World Health Organisation has announced that the threat of a killer flu pandemic is greater than ever because of the spread of the bird flu virus in south-east Asia. Under Bush’s recent Executive Order those with flu can be detained and quarantined for an indefinite period of time.

Consumer rights advocacy group Mission Possible is leading a campaign to file a product liability lawsuit with New York and New Jersey residents whose brain tumors may be linked to the consumption of the artificial sweetener aspartame (NutraSweet/Equal/Spoonful, etc.).

Uegene Safken says one of the chickens in his young flock had gotten into a tub of water in the yard last week and appeared to have died. He brought it back to life by swinging it and giving it mouth-to-beak resuscitation.

50 miles southeast of Helena, Montanta is Redgate, the center of hundreds of UFO sightings. Local resident Lynda Cowen and author Jim Marrs made a video about sightings in the area called “Secrets of Redgate.”

A large portion of a major Department of Defense web site was taken offline overnight after unclassified documents on the site became the subject of news stories and public controversy, highlighting the coverup of criminal activity of the federal govt.

Proposed Pentagon guidelines will formalize the U.S. military’s illegal policy of holding “enemy combatants” without protections under the Geneva Conventions, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to Donald Rumsfeld.

Special interest groups and lobbyists in Washington spent a whopping 13 billion dollars to influence decisions made by the White House, Congress and other U.S. federal agencies over the past eight years, a watchdog group said Thursday.

With hundreds of millions mourning the death of Pope John Paul II, many are asking why he was allowed to die without effective intervention. “If modern drugs were useless,” many ask, “why wasn’t he treated with alternative therapies, known to be extremely effective, even miraculous?” An international “Whole Person Healing Summit” will take up the issue April 14-17 in Bethesda, Maryland.

An important precendent has been set with the conviction of 5 politicians for racial discrimination against indigenous activist and Nobel Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu. Throughout latin america indigenous people are treated as sub-human. This case is may help more find justice and equality.

The pope had called sexual abuse of children a crime and a sin yet was unwilling make a formal apology, hear from the abused or make the real changes necessary to prevent continued abuse. The subject is not being mentioned at all in discussions of the Church’s future leadership.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is poised to approve the genetic engineering of smallpox virus. Instead of insisting upon the destruction of the virus the WHO will unleash it upon the world once again.

Against a backdrop of mock Old West shootouts and vigilante justice icons, more than 100 volunteers arrived yesterday to join or support citizen patrols of Arizona’s border with Mexico, condemning the Bush administration for allowing an “invasion” of illegal immigrants.

Anti-GMO campaigners from across North America have been congregating on Prince Edward Island for the last month to voice their opinions in favour of legislating PEI as the first transgenic-free province in Canada.

The commission of weapons of mass destruction urged lawmakers to create a new domestic spy agency similar to Nazi Germany’s Ghestappo to spy on Americans and neutralize those who don’t support the evil empire. (April 1)

I began to realize that what I and my colleagues had been doing in Latin America in the CIA was no more than a continuation of nearly five-hundred years of this, exploitation and genocide and so forth. – Former CIA Operative Philip Agee

A US military tribunal said that Murat Kurnaz, a German national seized in Pakistan in 2001, was a member of al Qaeda and an enemy combatant even, though it’s own documents said that there was no evidence.

If the World Bank’s board had applied the same kind of “due diligence” to Paul Wolfowitz that they purport to apply to major development projects, they might have uncovered a significant conflict-of-interest that could have led them to rethink their embrace of the architect of the Iraq war.

The Silberman-Robb Commission on WMD Intelligence released its massive report on the lies and deception of the Bush gang regarding Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. Yet, the report is merely more carefully contrived bush-wash that is as much of a lie as the previous lies about WMDs.

Does the Army want to expand its Dugway Proving Ground in Utah so it can forcibly obtain nearby land it contaminated with chemical weapons but has refused to clean? Or does it want to keep UFO-hunting groups farther away from the secretive base because they now closely watch it?

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